The Berlin Wall: The Rise And Fall Of The Berlin Wall

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Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall divided Germany from 1961 to 1989. It was built to divide communist East Germany from democratic West Germany. After World War II Germany was divided into four zones. They decided that the Berlin Wall was to separate the Communist and the democratic. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany). Separating into three zones controlled by France, Great Britain and America from the zone controlled by the Soviet Union. The zones that were controlled by France, Great Britain and America became the West Germany when the zone controlled by the soviet union was East Germany. .Communist tries to rise up against the wall, but they fail. It divided families in the capital of Germany.

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